Most of the wealthy and very wealthy in this country are conservative or very conservative. They can give great amounts of money to charity and still not have it affect their ability to have not only the necessities of life, but all of the great luxuries that they enjoy also. They SHOULD be giving far more!!!
The more liberal middle class and working poor are lucky to have enough to even get close to making basic human needs for them and their families, and they still find it in their hearts to give anything at all to charity. In fact, if you generally are down on your luck and need help, you are far more likely to find it from people on the wrong (poorer) side of the towns and communities of this nation!
Democrats are getting ready to hammer us again this Spring, over the debt ceiling limit. They approved a budget without the revenue to pay for it, and now they want to increase taxes yet again. That would be the standard and usual tax increases for the middle class and more spending for new entitlements and to bail out their previous boondoggles and ponzi schemes..Same ol’ same-o, with Democrats holding the country’s (and world) economic well-being hostage for their insane spending demands. If they can’t get what they want through legislative means, they’ll do it through the courts.
Conservatives do NOT give more to charities than liberals. See this paper published in August 2013 (Margolis & Sances, 2013, MIT):“At the individual level, the large bivariate relationship between giving and conservatism vanishes after adjusting for differences in income and religiosity. At the state level, we find no evidence of a relationship between charitable giving and Republican presidential voteshare. Finally, we show that any remaining differences in giving are an artifact of Republicans’ greater propensity to give to religious causes, particularly their own church. Taken together, our results counter the notion that political conservatives compensate for their opposition to governmental intervention by supporting private charities.”
That means that all those conservatives who claim that private donations would more than make up for the government are simply wrong. Conservatives give roughly the same as liberals, to different charities; conservatives tend to give to their churches; liberals to secular nonprofits.
Fair point, Mechanic; see my post with the 2013 paper disproving the whole concept. Romney donated a great deal of money to the Mormon Church, but historically many Mormons can do that and then call on that money later — meaning that they are treating the church as a Swiss bank, not a charity.
My understanding is that those ‘contributions’ are tax deductible because ALEC and the others are not ‘primarily’ political organizations.-So, my question is: Are contributions to ALEC counted as contributions to charity?
What he did was create a trust where the LDS gets 8% of the earnings and he gets the other 92%. Since the Church is the official keeper of the trust, it pays no taxes, even though Romney takes most of the earnings, and indeed can take money out of the trust over time.http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/bloomberg_digs_up_more_on_romn.php
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
Republicans don’t believe in Santa Claus, but do believe in Job Creators.
frodo1008 over 10 years ago
Most of the wealthy and very wealthy in this country are conservative or very conservative. They can give great amounts of money to charity and still not have it affect their ability to have not only the necessities of life, but all of the great luxuries that they enjoy also. They SHOULD be giving far more!!!
The more liberal middle class and working poor are lucky to have enough to even get close to making basic human needs for them and their families, and they still find it in their hearts to give anything at all to charity. In fact, if you generally are down on your luck and need help, you are far more likely to find it from people on the wrong (poorer) side of the towns and communities of this nation!
rpmurray over 10 years ago
Democrats are getting ready to hammer us again this Spring, over the debt ceiling limit. They approved a budget without the revenue to pay for it, and now they want to increase taxes yet again. That would be the standard and usual tax increases for the middle class and more spending for new entitlements and to bail out their previous boondoggles and ponzi schemes..Same ol’ same-o, with Democrats holding the country’s (and world) economic well-being hostage for their insane spending demands. If they can’t get what they want through legislative means, they’ll do it through the courts.
Motivemagus over 10 years ago
Conservatives do NOT give more to charities than liberals. See this paper published in August 2013 (Margolis & Sances, 2013, MIT):“At the individual level, the large bivariate relationship between giving and conservatism vanishes after adjusting for differences in income and religiosity. At the state level, we find no evidence of a relationship between charitable giving and Republican presidential voteshare. Finally, we show that any remaining differences in giving are an artifact of Republicans’ greater propensity to give to religious causes, particularly their own church. Taken together, our results counter the notion that political conservatives compensate for their opposition to governmental intervention by supporting private charities.”
That means that all those conservatives who claim that private donations would more than make up for the government are simply wrong. Conservatives give roughly the same as liberals, to different charities; conservatives tend to give to their churches; liberals to secular nonprofits.
Motivemagus over 10 years ago
Fair point, Mechanic; see my post with the 2013 paper disproving the whole concept. Romney donated a great deal of money to the Mormon Church, but historically many Mormons can do that and then call on that money later — meaning that they are treating the church as a Swiss bank, not a charity.
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
Does Koch Brothers’ finance of organizations like ALEC count as contributions to charities?
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
My understanding is that those ‘contributions’ are tax deductible because ALEC and the others are not ‘primarily’ political organizations.-So, my question is: Are contributions to ALEC counted as contributions to charity?
Motivemagus over 10 years ago
What he did was create a trust where the LDS gets 8% of the earnings and he gets the other 92%. Since the Church is the official keeper of the trust, it pays no taxes, even though Romney takes most of the earnings, and indeed can take money out of the trust over time.http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/bloomberg_digs_up_more_on_romn.php